Mark Williamson wrote:
Do you not realise that because of this, these changes will not be
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Do you not realize that actual human beings have to expend time and effort to make the software work at all? It doesn't happen by magic. It's not as though the default state of the software is constant change, and there's a bunch of nasty people sitting there stopping it from moving. There is a limited amount of available developer time, and time spent on one thing comes out of time that could be spent on another (bug fixes, performance tweaks, maintenance, adding new wikis).
Unfortunately in this situation not everything gets done as quickly as we might hope. Yes, that fact sucks, but it's a fact. One alternative would be to slap up any old file and have things constantly break completely because the files are wrong. When this happens people complain at us, so we don't generally do that.
I'm sorry if explaining this fact and giving tips on how to get a language file update accepted and installed faster has offended you.
Unfortunately I don't see you doing anything to help, like testing files and checking them against the CVS branches. And I certainly don't see you coding up an alternative message store system that would eliminate most of the need to update syntax-sensitive code files (which is the painful part). When you can do that, please post again and include something helpful.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)